Word: roman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...period it has moved again in full flow. In ancient Rome the statuary was a way of life, as much a part of the city as the humans who walked the streets. That way of life seemed ended when the barbaric Goths came pillaging, leaving behind them ruins of Roman art. But the Goths themselves, even while deriving from the Romans, gave their name to an art form that took its own place in the cultural current. Henry Moore draws from this past, as from the past of the savage idol carvers of Africa, Central America and the South Seas...
Cold as sculptured ice, Ingrid Bergman faced Roberto Rossellini in a Roman court, there to do battle against his latest attempt to gain permanent custody of their three children, who are now in the 13th week of a two-month visit with their father. Distantly, she called him "Signor Rossellini." He baked her in a Latin gaze. "Ingrid," he said, "call me Roberto." With that, her reserve melted into tears. When the show was over, Judge Giovanni Salemi agreed to let her keep the children. She could pick them up next month...
...families are fine-until a hard-pressed father has to pay two or three college tuitions at once. Last week the jolt was eased by the University of Portland (Ore.), a Roman Catholic institution (enrollment: 1,550) which announced an unusual sliding-scale plan for big families. Terms: full $660 tuition for a family's first scholar, $440 for a second in attendance at the same time, $220 for a third-nothing for all thereafter...
...Many a Roman Catholic, accustomed to a quota of "Hail Marys" or "Our Fathers" as penance for his sins, would be shocked if the priest told him to give up smoking for a week or get up every morning at dawn. But just such penances are proposed in the latest issue of Rome's influential Vita Pastorale by the clerical monthly's editor. Father Stefano Lamera...
...Roman Catholicism seems to be one of the least understood and most frequently misrepresented of religions, perhaps especially at Harvard. From the return of polls it is difficult to draw sweeping statistical generalizations on Catholic students. Only 23 Catholics, past and present, answered questionnaires; one of the 23 is a convert and the others were born Catholics. Of those, however, who were reared in a Catholic tradition, almost one fourth now declare themselves to be "agnostics" or "atheists." Another six retain formal affiliation with the Church but partially withhold intellectual assent or seem lax in their religious practices, though they...